31/05/2025: Action urged to tackle ten-fold increase in complex care placements
Extra government funding for early help services is needed to help tackle a more than tenfold increase in high-cost placements for children with complex needs over the last five years, say council leaders.
28/05/2025: Reducing Criminal Justice Involvement for Care-Experienced Children: New Report
A new report from the Centre for Justice Innovation and the Centre for Care explores the heightened risk of criminal justice involvement for children who have had contact with the social care system.
09/05/2025: My Care Story: ‘Don’t assume that everything is okay because that is the carer’s narrative’
A care-experienced advocate for children in care discusses the consequences of social workers failing to believe what young people tell them
04/05/2025: Specialist therapy course launched for foster carers
A specialist course believed to be the first of its kind is being launched for foster carers of children who have suffered traumatic experiences.
29/04/2025: Fatima Whitbread appeals to the government to overhaul care system
The former javelin world record holder has worked with fellow care-experienced people to produce a white paper with 14 action points for the government to implement
04/04/2025: DoL applications decline despite ongoing shortage of secure children’s homes
Applications for deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders for children fell more than 6% last year, latest analysis shows – the first annual decline this decade.
03/04/2025: MPs call for action on record number of children in temporary accommodation
Government action is needed to address the record high number of children living in temporary accommodation, with many “in appalling conditions”, say MPs.
25/03/2025: Survey reveals doubts over residential child care reforms
Children’s social care professionals have little confidence that planned government reforms to the residential child care sector will deliver savings and improve services over the next five years, a CYP Now survey suggests.
22/03/2025: ‘Society thinks you are a child abuser’
A mother whose children were taken into care says she no longer feels “shame” and has “recovered hope” after joining an art therapy support group for women in the same position.
13/03/2025: Care-experience duty to expand across public sector
The government has amended its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to expand corporate parenting responsibilities of councils across the public sector.